Archive for April, 2006

Don Alm told this interesting story about one of his customers. What struck me about the story was how common it is. You get an idea… you test it… and you get common reasons people say “no”. You think… “that idea stinks” and never try anything else. Here’s how someone bought the info, got the [...]

I used to run a niche newsletter/magazine from my home. It had about 2000 subscribers and worked pretty well. I sold it for family reasons… When I saw this article, I thought of it fondly though: Amid Consumer Magazine Failings, Custom Publishing Sees Growth As the consumer magazine industry continues to suffer the effects of [...]

Over at the Jensense blog, there’s a pretty good summary of recent discussions that makes you wonder if pages displaying Google Adsense ad get preference in indexing. In other words… Adsense may indeed be a faster back door into Google. Since Google AdSense launched, there has been rumors and speculation about the possibility of the [...]

Search Engine Optimized press releases can provide good traffic for a long time at minimal cost as we’ve talked about here before. Here’s some more on how to produce them from Garrett French on Creating Search Engine Optimized Press Releases. The whole article is well worth reading. Here’s the high points… • Include a section [...]

In this post on screening employees for cultural fit, Jeff Cornwall is talking about the corporate culture… as entrepreneurs who are growing any business (even my wife’s home business which just had to sub contract some work)… you want someone to help, not drag you down. The most common culprits are the attorneys and CPA’s [...]

This is something I ran across at our County’s leadership training on Tuesday. Did you know that if you are signing your child up for public school, you need a plethora of documentation… Birth Certificates Immunization Records Social Security Cards Etc. If you don’t have each one of these documents in order for each child, [...]

Here’s my experience thus far with “Dave’s Cool Little Website”… It works! Pretty much. Dave’s cool little website does everything promised, has good to great follow up support, and costs $97 plus the domain name. I was shocked to start getting money from ebay several times a week thanks to having people visit my website [...]

Kevin Nobelman via Ty Tribble My name is Kevin and I’m 24 years old. This is the true story of how during the summer of 2001, I made $40,000 selling dropshipped goods on ebay only to lose it all and end up with $4,000 of debt. Read my cautionary tale to prevent yourself from making [...]

The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network: Buying and Selling Safety on eBay Every Franchising Obstacle Presents an Opportunity to Improve Your Position MLM Company Rankings The Happy Gardener Opportunity How To Avoid Home Business Failure How to Get [...]

From Dan Poynter at ParaPublishing.com FLORIDA PUBLISHING MINI-COLLEGE. The Florida Publishers Association, Inc. is now accepting registrations for its April 22 Publishing Mini-College, themed “The Business of Books,” to be held at the Doubletree Guest Suites in Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida. Details and a downloadable PDF of the conference brochure can be found online [...]